Landtag – Düsseldorf – Herbert Reul wants to move into the Landtag next year – politics

Düsseldorf (dpa / lnw) – North Rhine-Westphalia’s Interior Minister Herbert Reul (CDU) is targeting a state parliament mandate, according to media reports. The 69-year-old wants to run as a CDU direct candidate in the Rheinisch-Bergisches Kreis in the state elections in May 2022, as reported by the “Rheinische Post”, the “Kölnische Rundschau” and the “Kölner Stadt-Anzeiger”. Reul did not want to comment on this. The CDU has until Monday to register for the two direct candidates in the Rheinisch-Bergisches Kreis for the NRW election. From 1985 to 2004 Reul was already once in the state parliament, after which he was drawn to the European Parliament.

The former general secretary of the NRW-CDU currently has no state parliament mandate. This is because he was still a member of the EU when he moved to the state cabinet from Brussels to Düsseldorf in 2017. In the absence of a state parliament mandate, he is currently out of the question as Prime Minister of North Rhine-Westphalia if the incumbent incumbent Armin Laschet is drawn to Berlin after the federal election. With the candidacy for a direct mandate in the state parliament, Reul would make it clear that he wants to continue to play an important role in the state CDU in the future.

So far, the Christian Democrat Rainer Deppe sits in the state parliament for the Rheinisch-Bergisch district. The 65-year-old had already announced in May that he wanted to end his work in the state parliament after four electoral terms.

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